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intention letters Intelligence: Not Just Another Fancy Term Recently, Space-Time Insight released Version 4 of what they call the Space-Time Insight Situational Intelligence Suite. For the company, this is not just a fancy name, but their very own definition of what they offer: the ability to analyze and act on scenarios or situations, not just mere isolated data. Some organizations are looking to close existing gaps within the information management cycle to give information workers, decision makers, and field

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Data quality has direct consequences on a company's bottom-line and its customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Looking beyond general approaches and company policies that set expectations and establish data management procedures, we will explore applications and tools that help reduce the negative impact of poor data quality. Some CRM application providers like Interface Software have definitely taken data quality seriously and are contributing to solving some data quality issues.

intention letters Quality: Cost or Profit? Market Overview In the past year, TEC has published a number of articles about data quality. ( Poor Data Quality Means A Waste of Money ; The Hidden Role of Data Quality in E-Commerce Success ; and, Continuous Data Quality Management: The Cornerstone of Zero-Latency Business Analytics .) This time our focus takes us to the specific domain of data quality within the customer relationship management (CRM) arena and how applications such as Interaction from Interface Software can
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Huge amounts of money are spent on marketing collateral—you need to ensure that you get your money's worth. This article discusses seven common mistakes made when developing software marketing collateral. Read on to see if you need to repent.

intention letters Seven Deadly Sins of Software Marketing Marketing collateral does not come cheap. Costs associated with textual content, graphic design, and production quickly add up. Obviously, you want to get an appropriate return on your investment. This article looks at seven common mistakes, or sins, made when developing marketing collateral for the software industry. The sins in question consider such concepts as targeting your market, lowering costs, and making it convenient for potential customers to use
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Geac, a struggling Canadian enterprise applications vendor has not found its white knight. It will, for the time being, have to sell parts of its business in order to replenish its dwindling resources, which may cause further commotion within its large customer base. Things won’t settle down until the company unequivocally states the strategy for all remaining product lines.

intention letters is indicative of our intention to be a more focused company, declared John E. Caldwell, Geac's President and Chief Executive Officer. We have had a long relationship with Starwood, a client whose needs and expectations our employees know well. This bodes well for the transition. The sale of the hotel business is indicative of our intention to be a more focused company, declared John E. Caldwell, Geac's President and Chief Executive Officer. We have had a long relationship with Starwood, a client
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General Motors will use Commerce One's E-commerce systems to build a global purchasing marketplace for its buyers and suppliers.

intention letters has already announced its intention to convert its entire purchasing system to operate within GM Marketplace. Note that this announcement is almost coincident with Commerce One's purchase of CommerceBid.com for $180 million. Adding auction capabilities to business-to-business marketplaces is inevitable, and GM's huge buyer/supplier network will test the concept on a grand scale. The precise details of how GM and Commerce One will garner revenues have not yet been announced. Both flat transaction fees and
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When Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “God is dead,” I’ll bet he had no idea that ERP system vendors were already queuing up to fill the gap.
He just wasn’t the practical, forward-thinking kind, that was his problem (Nietzsche, I mean, not God).
Now, in heaven, they take the long view. So when they started casting around for a replacement to their legacy system, they took the time to conduct

intention letters to Select an ERP System When You’re Dead When Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “ God is dead ,” I’ll bet he had no idea that ERP system vendors were already queuing up to fill the gap. He just wasn’t the practical, forward-thinking kind, that was his problem (Nietzsche, I mean, not God). Now, in heaven, they take the long view. So when they started casting around for a replacement to their legacy system, they took the time to conduct a thorough software evaluation process. Which meant, of
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Telligent has acquired Zimbra from VMware. According to the press release, Telligent will be merging with Zimbra and eventually change its name to Zimbra. The latter is expected to benefit from investments from Intel Capital, NXT Capital Venture Finance, BDCA, Hall Financial Group, and VMware. The leadership of the new company will be ensured by an integrated management team with Telligent's CEO

intention letters devices. In addition, Telligent's intention is to bring Zimbra’s comprehensive messaging and collaboration solutions and Telligent’s social community, collaboration, and analytics software together, in an effort to provide a better equipped software solution to companies interested in developing a customer experience strategy. Patrick Brandt explains: Zimbra enables traditional collaboration through features such as email, calendar sharing and address books, while Telligent supports real-time
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intention letters their expertise with the intention of finding like-minded people to connect to or work with. For example, SmartRecruiters is a free social recruiting platform which employs social technology to support the recruiting of candidates by business. Through their platform employers can advertise job offers to various social platforms as well as monitor the performance of each venue. Consequently, companies can make informed decisions with respect to their social recruiting plans. Niche vendors tend to offer
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Why would Microsoft want to publish an open source license? The very idea of Microsoft participating in the open source community might sound odd. After all, hasn't Microsoft been one

intention letters community (even if the intention was more involved, like subverting it), Microsoft will have to embrace and practice the business changes such participation entails. Thus, theory 1 comes true--Microsoft ends up moving toward greater open source practices within its own business.
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In compliance with the August arbitrator’s report on the conflict between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, the consulting firm has announced its new name to be Accenture. It wants this new identity to fully brand it in the marketplace, a task we think will be harder than Accenture admits.

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If you're going to use ROI in order to find new business or, justify your solution, be careful. ROI is a loaded gun and you might just shoot yourself.

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We’ve barely had time to assimilate IBM’s acquisition of Vivisimo and now IBM has announced its intention to acquire Tealeaf Technology, a provider of customer experience management and customer behavior analysis applications.
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intention letters IBM has announced its intention to acquire Tealeaf Technology , a provider of customer experience management and customer behavior analysis applications. IBM is filling in an important piece of the analytics puzzle by reinforcing its analytics capabilities to the customer service behavior area, an important segment of the business analytics arena. IBM customers can now incorporate into their IBM Analytics product stack an application to discover, analyze, and anticipate customer behavior, giving
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